r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Sep 12 '26

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Michigan Defeats Oklahoma 17-10

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Oklahoma 0 0 7 3 10
Michigan 7 3 0 7 17
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u/Brenner- Utah Utes • Wyoming Cowboys Sep 12 '26

Welcome to the Whittingham Experience™

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u/Chuck_Phuckzalot Michigan • Central Michigan Sep 12 '26

After two weeks of Whittingham I mostly just feel a profound sense of confusion.

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u/seoul_drift Michigan Wolverines • Uppsala Snakeheads Sep 12 '26

I'm pretty sure Jay Hill is excellent, as is this defense when time of possession is reasonable.

I'm pretty sure the floor for this offense is horrendous, unsure about the ceiling.

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u/Legal_Echo8196 Michigan • William & Mary Sep 12 '26

need jay hill to take over when whitt retires

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u/Revenge_of_the_Khaki Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

Jay Hill is probably foaming at the mouth with the roster he took over.

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u/seoul_drift Michigan Wolverines • Uppsala Snakeheads Sep 13 '26

The fact that this defense can go man coverage and still blanket all receiving targets has to be such a treat for a good defensive mind.

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u/gsbadj Michigan Wolverines Sep 13 '26

I was shocked at how many times Michigan was in man coverage and OU never tried to exploit it.

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u/Jonathan-Ventimiglia Wesleyan (CT) Cardinals • NESCAC Sep 13 '26

The skill positions are solid enough for the ceiling to be pretty high, but it’s going to take some real work/luck to get there.

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u/Superb-Painting172 Sep 12 '26

It really makes me think they totally overlooked Western Michigan. I mean - what the hell was last week?

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u/deathinacandle Michigan Wolverines • Arizona Wildcats Sep 13 '26

I mean, the first game of the season can be unpredictable with all of the jitters, rust etc. The fact that they were able to respond this week bodes well imo

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u/CommodoreN7 Arkansas Razorbacks • Utah Utes Sep 12 '26

You’ll never have fun but you’ll win some games

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u/Johnnymac98 Michigan Wolverines • Duke Blue Devils Sep 12 '26

Lmao fuck that I had so much fun

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u/bureaucracynow Michigan Wolverines • Sickos Sep 14 '26

100% - we live and breathe for a disgusting rock fight like that

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u/turtlespice Michigan Wolverines Sep 12 '26

That’s been the Michigan experience for the past 20 years! Perfect fit 

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u/ShallowKalkite Michigan Wolverines Sep 12 '26

More like the past 60 years. This is literally Michigan football

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u/cityofklompton Grand Valley State Lakers Sep 12 '26

Honestly, the more I learned about Whitt after Michigan hired him, it felt they couldn't have hired a more Michigan kind of coach than him. Fits like a glove.

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u/twoinvenice USC Trojans • Paper Bag Sep 12 '26

I was saying that to any Michigan fan who was like “wtf?” He’s the kind of dude that actually is kinda the epitome of the “Michigan Man” - both the good and bad sides of that too

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u/Korean_Jesus21 Michigan • Tennessee Sep 12 '26

Ain't that the fuckin truth.

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u/Fit8510 Georgia Bulldogs Sep 12 '26

You're less than three years removed from an undefeated National Championship...

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u/turtlespice Michigan Wolverines Sep 12 '26

We sure did, and it was great. But our team was still scary to watch at times. Ohio State looks consistently dominant in most games almost every year—that’s never how we win. We’re a weird program. 

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u/NotoriousGriff Arkansas • Notre Dame Sep 12 '26

You’re going to have a fun game today. I hope it’s not fun in the same way my fun game was last year

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u/CommodoreN7 Arkansas Razorbacks • Utah Utes Sep 12 '26

I was at that game last year too….. looking forward to tonight though. Can’t lose.

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u/Geaux2020 LSU Tigers • Valley City State Vikings Sep 12 '26

Somebody grab the pitcher, but no rush. That man's glass is half full!

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u/OfficialPaddysPub Michigan Wolverines • USC Trojans Sep 12 '26

Idk that was fun lol

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u/Steezeybby Michigan Wolverines • Texas Longhorns Sep 12 '26

Yeah OU has a great defense. I knew if we were to win, it would need to be a defensive struggle.

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u/OfficialPaddysPub Michigan Wolverines • USC Trojans Sep 12 '26

I think that’s how most our game will go haha. Hoping WMU is a defensive powerhouse though so things look up on offense

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u/cogginsmatt Michigan Wolverines Sep 12 '26

As a fan of defense and special teams I had a lot of fun

If Michigan didn't commit so many dumbass penalties it would have been even better

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u/Wagnerous Michigan Wolverines • Paul Bunyan Trophy Sep 12 '26

Yeah I thought our punting game was legitimately incredible to watch.

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u/LaSopaSabrosa Michigan • /r/CFBRisk Veteran Sep 12 '26

Multiple punts downed inside the 1? Hell yeah brother

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u/CourseOk6854 Miami Hurricanes Sep 12 '26

That wasn't fun?

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u/Simmumah Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl Sep 12 '26

I had fun.........

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u/ItsFreakinHarry2 UCF Knights • Florida Gators Sep 12 '26

Sounds like the opposite of the Gus Malzahn experience. You’ll have fun but you’ll lose some games because Gus is an absolute moron sometimes

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u/doubleyou-tee-hache Michigan Wolverines Sep 12 '26

We have the Malzahn special of "a fuck ton of QB runs and endless jet motion before 90% of offensive snaps" down pat.

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u/rougehuron Michigan • Eastern Michigan Sep 12 '26

Pretty much fits being a life long Michigan fan

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u/coney36creels Sep 12 '26

I remember what Utah football was like before him. If you didn’t have fun while he was there, you’re never going to enjoy football again.

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u/NS-13 Michigan Wolverines • Lehigh Mountain Hawks Sep 12 '26

I had fun.

Not last week tho that was horrible.

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u/kelpyb1 Michigan Wolverines • Oberlin Yeomen Sep 12 '26

I had a ton of fun considering I went into this game expecting to turn it off in the 3rd quarter.

We’re freaks in the Big 10, we enjoy watching a 3-6 defensive punt fest

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u/ericaepic Harvard Crimson • Michigan Wolverines Sep 12 '26

Thanks to most of the neutral fans for insisting on Michigan vs everybody, we had a lot of fun lol

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u/Street-Bullfrog2223 Sep 12 '26

This skin friend. You gotta choose a side tonight. WPS tonight then you can go back to being a Ute.

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u/TopHatTony11 Michigan Wolverines • The Game Sep 12 '26

I’m starting to understand.

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u/MokelMoo Michigan • Eastern Michigan Sep 12 '26

I mean this was pretty similar to the Harbaugh experience especially the shea patterson era

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u/GuyFawkes451 Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 12 '26

Oh... it HAD to have been fun beating USC, as underdogs, over, and over, and over again.

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u/boxman151515 Central Michigan • Michigan Sep 12 '26

Idk I had fun

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u/ALinkToThePants Lombard Olive • Cigar Bowl Sep 12 '26

They still haven’t lost technically

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u/do_you_know_doug Iowa • Appalachian State Sep 12 '26

Sounds familiar

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u/NA_Faker Texas Longhorns • Wisconsin Badgers Sep 12 '26

Hey, I'm having a lot of fun rn

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u/bb0110 Michigan Wolverines Sep 12 '26

I don’t know, I had a lot of fun today…

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u/Appropriate_Bottle44 Michigan Wolverines Sep 12 '26

I'm having fun right now.

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u/BrobaFett Michigan Wolverines • Arkansas Razorbacks Sep 12 '26

A grindy, smash face, defense stacked, low scoring suffocation match? Sounds like Witt is B1G material after all

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u/Vedeynevin Michigan Wolverines • Oklahoma Sooners Sep 12 '26

B1G fans are like 70% sickos who love defense and punts so this was great fun.

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u/Sevrdhed Utah Utes Sep 12 '26

Yo what is this flair and what are you doing tonight??

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u/CommodoreN7 Arkansas Razorbacks • Utah Utes Sep 12 '26

Grew up in Arkansas and went to grad school at Utah. Edge to Utah since I attended there and not Arkansas

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u/Sevrdhed Utah Utes Sep 13 '26

Haha fair enough. Go Utes !

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u/lc910 Michigan Wolverines • Xavier Musketeers Sep 13 '26

Michigan had an entire half of football against a top 10 team where like one pass play was called in a year when we won the natty. Sicko ball is in the maize and blue blood.

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u/cmgr33n3 Michigan Wolverines Sep 12 '26

I remember these times from the Lllloyd Carr days.

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u/SamEyeAm2020 Ohio State Buckeyes • Team Chaos Sep 12 '26

Maybe Tommy has the voodoo not Whitt

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u/midnightsbane04 Michigan • North Carolina Sep 13 '26

People also tend to forget that 9-3 or 10-2 were the staples during the Lloyd days. The 1997 season was the clear outlier, the rest was actual Lloyd Carr football.

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u/PiantaMikeElko Texas A&M Aggies Sep 12 '26

What an Enigma. Love this guy

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u/irishgeiger Notre Dame • Tennessee Sep 12 '26

“Love it or hate it, you watched”

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u/doc_oct Michigan Wolverines Sep 12 '26

Sounds like the classic Michigan experience. Schembechler, Carr, Harbaugh (except at the end). We're good if we win.

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u/Medical-Weight-8209 Sep 12 '26

Whit has much to prove. Michigan had played sloppy the first two week under him. The offense has been absolutely terrible. 

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u/bb0110 Michigan Wolverines Sep 12 '26

Not sure I agree with that. That was about as good of an offensive performance as you can ask from this offense. Sloppy from the penalties sure, and that needs to be cleaned up, but overall as a team that was significantly more than me or any Michigan fan I know thought was even possible.

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u/Dequantavious BYU Cougars • Georgia Bulldogs Sep 12 '26

Nah that was all Jay Hill

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u/Jaerba Michigan Wolverines Sep 12 '26

Yeah. Jay Hill for our next HC. Beck can go.

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u/Ghostmann24 Ohio State Buckeyes • The Game Sep 12 '26

Saw Beck and almost had an aneurysm thinking Tim Beck.

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u/Jaerba Michigan Wolverines Sep 12 '26

Might as well. We ran a jet sweep on 3rd and 4.

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u/Ghostmann24 Ohio State Buckeyes • The Game Sep 12 '26

💀

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u/UteFlyersCardJazz Utah Utes • Oregon State Beavers Sep 12 '26

I’ll determine that based on your game today. Arizona looks like a good offensive team.

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u/bb0110 Michigan Wolverines Sep 12 '26

I approve today. That was fun.